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Feb 27, 2025
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howy YouTubers I'm Tim Carter founder of
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v.com I want to do kind of a quirky
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video for you I want to give you a tour
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of my Ham Radio Shack it's a project I
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completed about three and a half four
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months ago and I just thought you'd like
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to see it and I'll explain you know how
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I did it and some of the materials I
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used I also want to share with you right
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at the end of this video why you should
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really be participating in the Treasure
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Hunt day three we're into day three
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already and I made a mistake I wasn't
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able to uh tape a video for you for day
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two but this is going to be the alert
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and you can win lots of really cool
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prizes but let's take a look at the Ham
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Radio Shack
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first okay so here's the wall that I
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look at as I sit in my chair and what
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you're looking at here these are just
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bandanas that you would put on your head
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but they're very colorful they're
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topographic maps uh I majored in geology
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and college so I love topographic maps
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and there have uh basic basically
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different national parks here in the
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United States and they're just really
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really I think they're neat I I use them
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to try to keep the sound from bouncing
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around this room without them it just
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like it's an echo chamber so the ham
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Shack's only 7 ft wide um from corner to
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corner this direction and it's 12T long
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you know from that wall to behind where
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I'm standing right now uh of course it's
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got a really th I'm going to blow you
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out here I'm sorry about this it's got a
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really nice window that I put in
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uh kind of a picture window with two
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flankers on either side and we got a
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little bit of light snow happening
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outside here right now in New Hampshire
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uh I've got I had to put in a a blind
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you know a a mini blind because this uh
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window it faces South so in the morning
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the sun just really woo comes in here
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and it just blows everything out uh and
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of course you know here's that's where
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my antennas for my radio come in through
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the wall another bandana here's three
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more bandan is trying to keep the sound
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down and uh you know here's As you move
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around the
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shack uh but anyway oh that's a kind of
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a neat momento I flew for an hour with a
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number seven uh Blue Angels pilot back
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on April 19th 2005 and uh they gave me
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that
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photo let me tell you that was a heck of
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a ride and of course there's the
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thermostat that controls the heat uh in
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the floor this is is here's the type of
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floor we have I went ahead this was an
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OSB floor before I finished the room but
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now it's an Armstrong laminate floor
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absolutely gorgeous and underneath the
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laminate flooring I've got a electric
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radiant floor mat that keeps this room
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nice and
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toasty I had to build this wall here uh
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this wall didn't exist and I've got just
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a regular steel insulated door you know
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that I use to get in and out of the
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shack and uh that's basically it
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okay well I hope you like the tour uh
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it's just a quick project I did I
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probably have between 40 and 50 total
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hours in the project maybe a few more uh
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but it was spread out over about a 2 and
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1 half week period of time um actually
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probably the hardest thing to do was to
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uh technically was just to put the thin
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set that I had to
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install over the top of the radiant
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floor mat before you put down the
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laminate flooring but I've got a video
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series on that you've probably already
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seen it so let me tell you quickly about
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the treasure hunt uh there's going to be
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a link in a few minutes right underneath
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my face here I want you to click the
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link and go play day one play day two
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and day three of my treasure hunt it's
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really simple it's really fun you can
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win all sorts of prizes and the grand
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prize is I'm going to visit somebody's
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house in the United States here in the
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lower 48 for a whole day it could be you
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so make sure you uh play the treasure
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hunt it's free it doesn't cost you
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anything if you live anywhere in the
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world you can play the treasure hunt the
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only thing you can't win is the grand
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prize there are many many other prizes
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and if you live in Australia you live in
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England India I don't care where you
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live you may win one of those prizes and
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I'll be sending it to you so go ahead
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click right below my face right here you
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know click right here I think and uh
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play the treasure hunt and after you
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play it do me a favor come back here to
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the video and leave in the comments you
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know whether you had fun or not I'd love
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to hear from you I'm Tim Carter for
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